Territorial Prelature of Moyobamba, Peru

Continent: South America

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Territorial Prelature

Name: Moyobamba / Moyobamben(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Trujillo

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

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Celebrations

Cathedral Dedication Anniversary: July 25

Liturgical Calendar 📅

History

1948.03.07: Established as Territorial Prelature of Moyobamba / Moyobamben(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Chachapoyas and became suffragan of Trujillo)
2007.04.26: Lost territory to Diocese of Huánuco

Contact Info

Address: Casa Prelaticia, Jr. Callao 650, Moyobamba, Dep.to San Martín, Peru

Phone: (42)56.23.53

Present Prelates

Bishop-Prelate (2007.07.21 – ...):

Bishop Rafael Alfonso Escudero López-Brea (62)

Ordinaries

Prelates of Moyobamba (Roman Rite)

Bishop Rafael Alfonso Escudero López-Brea (62)
(2007.07.21 – ...)

Bishop-Prelate of Moyobamba (Peru)

Deus caritas est

Born:	1962.04.04 (Quintanar de la Orden, Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1989.07.09
Consecrated Bishop:	2006.08.26

Priest of Toledo (Spain) (1989.07.09 – 2006.07.08)

Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate of Moyobamba (Peru) (2006.07.08 – 2007.07.21)

Bishop-Prelate of Moyobamba (Peru) (2007.07.21 – ...)

Bishop José Ramón Santos Iztueta Mendizábal, C.P.
(2000.06.06 – 2007.07.21)

Al servicio de la caridad

Born:	1929.04.03 (Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1951.04.25
Consecrated Bishop:	1998.07.03
Died:	2007.08.27 († 78)

Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate of Moyobamba (Peru) (1998.05.30 – 2000.06.06)

Bishop-Prelate of Moyobamba (Peru) (2000.06.06 – 2007.07.21)

Bishop Venancio Celestino Orbe Uriarte, C.P.
(1967.08.25 – 2000.06.06)

Omnia omnibus

Born:	1927.04.06 (Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1949.08.07
Consecrated Bishop:	1967.11.21
Died:	2008.07.18 († 81)

Titular Bishop of Naratcata (1967.08.25 – 1977.12.01)

Bishop-Prelate of Moyobamba (Peru) (1967.08.25 – 2000.06.06)

Bishop Martin Fulgencio Elorza Legaristi, C.P.
(1949.01.15 – 1966.12.30)

Born:	1899.12.30 (Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1924.07.13
Consecrated Bishop:	1954.02.24
Died:	1966.12.30 († 67)

Bishop-Prelate of Moyobamba (Peru) (1949.01.15 – 1966.12.30)

Titular Bishop of Baliana (1953.10.03 – 1966.12.30)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate: Bishop Rafael Alfonso Escudero López-Brea (62) (2006.07.08 – 2007.07.21)
Coadjutor Bishop-Prelate: Bishop José Ramón Santos Iztueta Mendizábal, C.P. (1998.05.30 – 2000.06.06)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Catedral Santiago Apóstol, Moyobamba, San Martín
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Churches by City (22)

Huarí (↙), Huamachuco (↙), Yurimaguas (→), Requena (↘), Pucallpa (↘), Huánuco (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 39,418 km²

Population: 517,000 Catholics (65.0% of 795,520 total)

Pastoral Centres: 24 parishes, 820 missions

Personnel: 54 priests (40 diocesan, 14 religious), 94 religious (14 brothers, 80 sisters), 17 seminarians